FCS Spring Stats - Keeper's College Football

[danefan]

Courtesy of KD Keeper we have FCS spring stats.

The stats provide:

RBG = percentage of rushing yards gone
QBG = percentage of passing yards gone
WRG = percentage of receiving yards gone
OLG = number of offensive linemen gone, not including long-snappers, based on number of games played
DTG = percentage of defense total tackles gone based on 10+ tackles or team's top 22 tacklers
DSG = number of defensive starters lost if known, otherwise estimated by games played stat.

Very enlightening on what team has what returning.

http://home.att.net/~keepers.football/w ... 96956.html

[JMU DJ]

Nice Stats, seems to follow the expectations of what have been discussed on the boards as to what the teams are returning through season outlooks. Richmond and Nova are definitely leading the CAA South in returning offensive players who were major components of the offensive scheme... as expected. I'm wondering how much of the RBG percentage for JMU is due to the loss of Landers... he was a little under 45% of the run game last year. Obviously the loss of Landers is reflected in those percentages.

[danefan]

Keeper also has this interesting set of stats that appear to be compiled using the Spring Stats data:

Here are the top 20 teams each from FCS who should be the most improved teams this year
based on stats of returning players. Increase in ratings points are also displayed.

FCS TEAMS change
Campbell 10.21
St Francis-PA 9.55
Alabama State 9.32
VMI 9.25
Jacksonville 8.82
Hofstra 8.48
Florida A&M 8.47
Howard 8.35
Stephen F Austin 8.20
Elon 7.77
Mississippi Valley 7.75
Duquense 7.15
Butler 6.86
Bucknell 6.21
Jacksonville State 5.98
Bryant 5.74
Murray State 5.71
The Citadel 5.54
Richmond 5.45
Austin Peay 5.30

Now here are the top 20's of those most likely to regress from last year's results.

FCS TEAMS change
Cornell -16.36
Dayton -12.37
Yale -11.97
Sam Houston State -10.45
Liberty -10.33
Brown -10.23
Tennessee State -9.33
McNeese State -8.27
Delaware State -7.93
Arkansas-Pine Bluff -7.52
Wofford -7.10
SE Missouri State -6.73
Northern Iowa -6.72
North Dakota -6.55
Southern U -6.54
Eastern Kentucky -6.54
Harvard -6.12
Lehigh -6.03
North Dakota State -5.63
Nicholls State -5.54

http://home.att.net/~keepers.football/w ... 94543.html

It should be interesting to revist these in December and see how close they are.

[dbackjon]

Great find - very interesting.

Of course, they don't tell the full story, but a good gauge of what is being replaced at various schools.

[clenz]

UNI is on the regression list because of the defense. We lost our entire starting secondary, 2 or 3 DL and some LB. However, with the way we rotated on D we will still be fine. I'm trying to figure out where he got UNI losing passing yards, even 1%. Grace was a JR last year and Davis was a Soph. The only other guy to take snaps at QB was DP Eyrman, who is a WR and emergency QB. I think he only took one or two snaps, both runs. Unless they are counting that one TD pass by Victor Williams against BYU

[danefan]

UNI is on the regression list because of the defense. We lost our entire starting secondary, 2 or 3 DL and some LB. However, with the way we rotated on D we will still be fine. I'm trying to figure out where he got UNI losing passing yards, even 1%. Grace was a JR last year and Davis was a Soph. The only other guy to take snaps at QB was DP Eyrman, who is a WR and emergency QB. I think he only took one or two snaps, both runs. Unless they are counting that one TD pass by Victor Williams against BYU

Probably counting all passing stats, not just QB's.